Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Media Witnessing? Why Now? PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing: An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces; J.D.Peters Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers; P.Frosh Mundane Witness; J.Ellis Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics and Current Appearances; G.Thomas Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media; M.Blondheim& T.Liebes PART II: PERFORMANCES OF MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing as a Field; T.Ashuri and A.Pinchevski From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing; C.Rentschler Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation; J.Leach Witnesses or Bystanders: What Models are Appropriate in Understanding the Media Act of Witnessing? Witnessing Trauma on Film; R.Brand Index
About the Author: TAMAR ASHURI Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and in the School of Communications at Sapir Academic College, Israel MENAHEM BLONDHEIM Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ROY BRAND Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, USA JOHN ELLIS Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ELIHU KATZ Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research, Israel JOAN LEACH Convenor of the Science Communication Programme at the University of Queensland, Australia TAMAR LIEBES Professor of Media and Journalism and holder of the Carl and Matilda Newhouse Chair in Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JOHN DURHAM PETERS F.Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, USA CARRIE A. RENTSCHLER Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Canada G?NTER THOMAS Professor of Protestant Theology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany